One of the most promising youth players in Man United’s history, Ravel Morrison now finds himself playing football in Mexico’s burning cauldron of a league.

The ecstasy, the bewilderment, the sheer passion. Welcome yourself to the world of Ravel Morrison, the mercurial maestro who reduces grown men to a state of giddiness rarely seen beyond the closed duopoly of Messi and Ronaldo. In a recent Mexican League game, Morrison, an English striker, is seen taking on numerous defenders before scoring a goal for his team Atlas FC, from outside the box, in such an assured and composed manner. This also happened to be against the biggest club side in Mexico, Club America. The commentator during the goal goes into a state of pandemonium, ‘’More Reason, More Reason, More Reason!’ he screams, attempting to pronounce the players name. Ravel Morrison. The enigma who has not taken the typical Englishman’s career route.
‘’This guy was the best young kid that I’ve seen in my life…I’ve never seen a guy look so comfortable on the football pitch, Pogba used to look up to this boy’’ Rio Ferdinand would say in an interview last year about Morrison, with a hint of sadness in his tone of voice. Morrison has been an enigma in the game, a player with bewildering flair that embellished itself in his DNA, yet balanced by a mental fragility that has seen him unable to play at the level his talent undoubtedly warrants.
In many ways, his story so far bears uncanny resemblance to another former Man United youth product, Adrian Doherty, who played alongside the famed class of 92 and was said to have been naturally more gifted than Ryan Giggs. Yet injuries, and an interest in life beyond football, meant Doherty faded into obscurity, passing away in an accident in 1997 having never made a professional career out of the game. Yet, listen to interviews recorded only last year with Ryan Giggs and Brendan Rodgers, who both played with Doherty, and they still sound in awe of him, remembering even all these years later, what a talent he was, with the same tone of regret that embodies Ferdinand’s comments on Morrison. Class remembers class.